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kiosuke

22 May

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Does this sound natural? And what a situation should I use “not S V without one’s doing”? Can I use it in a daily conversation, or only a kind of novel?

Not a meal passed without our family saying ごちそうさま together at the end of the time.

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HebrewDane

22 May

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Not week passed. Not a year passed. Not a month passed. All these, and others like them, are just ways of saying that a certain amount of time passed and even in this period of time something happened.
"After my surgery, not a week passed before my leg started to feel normal again."
"Not a year passed after his wife's death before he married again."

It's just an expression we use. It could be used in many contexts wherever you want to stress something occurring within a certain period of time.

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HebrewDane

22 May

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@kiosuke I don't really understand your question. the not SV without one's doing. It doesn't really make sense

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kiosuke

22 May

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@HebrewDane

I saw this example sentence
“Not a week passed without our class having a small quiz.”
Could you tell me how it can be used in another sentence?

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HebrewDane

22 May

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Not week passed. Not a year passed. Not a month passed. All these, and others like them, are just ways of saying that a certain amount of time passed and even in this period of time something happened.
"After my surgery, not a week passed before my leg started to feel normal again."
"Not a year passed after his wife's death before he married again."

It's just an expression we use. It could be used in many contexts wherever you want to stress something occurring within a certain period of time.

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kiosuke

22 May

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kiosuke

22 May

Japanese

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Does this sound natural? And what a situation should I use “not S V without one’s doing”? Can I use it in a daily conversation, or only a kind of novel?

Not a meal passed without our family saying ごちそうさま together at the end of the time.

Does this sound natural? And what a situation should I use “not S V without one’s doing”? Can I use it in a daily conversation, or only a kind of novel?Not a meal passed without our family saying ごちそうさま together at the end of the time. See a translation

@kiosuke I don't really understand your question. the not SV without one's doing. It doesn't really make sense

Does this sound natural? And what a situation should I use “not S V without one’s doing”? Can I use it in a daily conversation, or only a kind of novel?

Not a meal passed without our family saying ごちそうさま together at the end of the time.

See a translation